Machine for figuring endless glazed paper.



No. 789,091. PATBNTBD MAY 2, i905.

G. HENNESSEN L P. SPIX.

MACHINE FOR FIGURING ENDLESS GLAZED PAPER. APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 12,1905.

NITED STATES- Patented May 2, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.j

MACHINE FOR FIGURING ENDLESS GLAZED PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,091, dated May 2,1905.

Application filed January 12, 1905. Serial No. 240,827. i

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that we, GIsBER'r HENNEssEN and PETER SPIX, subjects of theGerman Emperor, and residents of Mnchen-Gladbach, Germany, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Fifruring EndlessGlazed Paper, of which the fol owing is a specification.

The present invention relates to a machine for figuring so-calledendless papersuch as stained paper, wall-paper, and so onwhich washitherto glazed over the whole surface without any interruption, in anew and such a manner that only certain parts will be glazed, while theother parts remain dull, so that different designs of any kind can beproduced on the surface of the paper merely by the difference betweenthe glazed and dull parts.

The essential and new feature of the machine consists therein that arotating roller a, provided with the engraved or cut design, keeps on topress the design again and again into the elastic circumference of asecond roller b of a yielding material, which works together with afriction-roller c. The paper d or other material to be figured is passedthrough between the elastic roller b, which carries on its circumferencethe impressed design, and the friction-roller c in such a manner thatthat side of the paper which is to be figured is turned toward thefriction-roller. By the friction of the latter the surface of the papertouching the raised parts of the design is made smooth and glossy, whilethe other parts remain dull, so that the design will appear on the paperthrough the difference between glossy and dull parts. By the action ofthe friction-roller the design impressed into the circumference of theroller b is effaced; but by the design-roller ait is constantly renewed.As the paper during this treatment lies upon an elastic support, itcannot possibly get torn, and the rollers are notliable to wear outsoon.

Experiments have shown that it is not possible to work with the machineif the roller b is made f metal and is provided itself with the engrayedor out design, for in that case the design-roller b, as well as thefriction-roller c, would get worn out by the friction within a shorttime and also the paper would be subjected to a great strain and beeasily torn.

The roller b, on a part of whose elastic surface the design is onlyimpressed, may be of any suitable material, such as paper, cotton,asbestos, india-rubber, leather, and the like. The figured part of thecircumference of the roller shown in the drawing is marked with littlestrokes.

The rollers a and b rotate with an equal circumferential velocity, whilethe frictionroller c possesses a greater circumferential velocity.

The paper or other material to be figured is wound off from a roller e,is figured in the machine, and then wound in a figured state upon aroller f.

The same machine can of course be used for figuring stuff of any kind.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure byUnited StatesLetters Patent, is

In a machine for figuring glazed paper and the like, a roller a providedwith the engraved design, a roller; b having an elastic circumferenceengaging with the roller a so as to receive said design on the elasticcircumference, and a friction roller c engaging with the roller Y), saidrollers b and c receiving the paper between them;

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GISBERT HENNESSEN. PETER SPIX.

Witnesses WILLIAM KRUGGERS, Gon ScHoL'rz.

